In a landmark decision Fives ECL, SAS v. REEL GmbH on January 16, 2025, the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) clarified the jurisdictional boundaries of the UPC. This decision has far-reaching...more
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On 18 October 2023, the President of the Court of First Instance of the UPC issued an order changing the procedural language from Dutch to English (the language of the patent at issue).
The Court weighed the interests of...more
In our latest blogpost of 20 January 2022, we discussed the kick-off to the preparatory phase for the actual start of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). We are now one step closer to the actual start: on 8 July, the...more
Last Friday 17 June 2022, the WTO member states came to an agreement on the long negotiated TRIPS Waiver. In its annual 6 days conference (the Ministerial Conference), the WTO member states agreed that all developing country...more
Last month, a leaked document regarding the TRIPS Waiver revealed a breakthrough between the EU, South Africa, India and the United States. After 18 months of negotiations, the four parties now have reached a high-level...more
On 2 October 2020, South Africa and India submitted a proposal to the WTO to temporarily suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). In short, the...more
Further changes to the EU Trade Mark (“EUTM”) system come into effect on 1 October 2017. These are the next step in the EU’s trade mark reforms, which are aimed at modernising the system to make it technologically up-to-date...more